plural of skin effect

The continuous worldwide increase in average scores on intelligence tests.

plural of eureka effect

plural of butterfly effect

Alternative form of fraternal birth order effect

The phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapour layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.

(psychology) The effect that a subject has a longer reaction time when naming the colours of words if the words describe colours other than their own (such as "red" printed in blue ink).

Alternative form of ground-effect machine

Synonym of hovercraft / Synonym of ground-effect vehicle

(cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.